MANOR FARMHOUSE

MANOR FARMHOUSE, CHURCH END

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1312403
Date first listed:: 17-May-1984
List Entry Name:: MANOR FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address:: MANOR FARMHOUSE, CHURCH END

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1312403
Date first listed:: 17-May-1984
List Entry Name:: MANOR FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: MANOR FARMHOUSE, CHURCH END

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: MANOR FARMHOUSE, CHURCH END

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Bedford (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Willington
National Grid Reference:: TL1053349766

Details

TL 14NW WILLINGTON CHURCH END

4/113 Manor Farmhouse - GV II

House. Early-mid C16 origins, with rebuilding, refacing and additions in C17, C18 and C19. Original house built for Sir John Gostwick, at one time Master of the Horse to Cardinal Wolsey and later in service of Henry VIII as Treasurer and Receiver-General of the First Fruits and Tenths at the Dissolution. Originally timber framed and brick building (some timbering visible to interior), with later work in red brick. Old clay tile roof. 2- storeyed L-plan, with C19 additions, of 2 storeys within angle, one storey and attics to NE and one storey to NW. SW (front) elevation : first floor has 4 sash windows with glazing bars and gauged red brick heads. Ground floor has 2 similar windows to LH, and to RH 2 tall sash windows (also with glazing bars and gauged brick heads) flanking doorway. Door surround has pilasters with sunken panels, entablature, frieze and cornice. Door of 4 fielded panels, surmounted by semi-circular fanlight with radiating glazing bars. Moulded brick eaves cornice. RH corner retains earlier brickwork. the substantial external chimney stack to NE gable and the gable itself are also of earlier, possibly C16, brickwork, except the top of the stack, rebuilt C20. Red brick ridge stack to L. Red brick ridge stack to R at intersection with rear block, originally serving back-to-back hearth. SE elevation also retains some earlier brickwork with diaper patterning, but probably C17. (H.P.R. Finberg, "The Gostwicks of Willington", Bedfordshire Historical Record Society, vol 36, 1956, pp46-137).

Listing NGR: TL1053349766

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Legacy System number:: 36750
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Finberg, H P R, The Gostwicks of Willington, (1956), 46-137

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.